Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1887-01-06
MCGOWAN g. NICHOLS, Publishers.
Where Some OF the Buildings Of
Cedarville Have Gone.

tions which tell of human interest and
endeavor. It is not upon the size OF
building that the Interest depends, for
small affair may bring to mind the
most recollections, AS in country
towns, small SHOPS are the rule, aud
large ones the exception, it is mostly
with little ones that this sketch has to
do. Not with those that exist to-day,
but with those which, having served
their purpose, added to the livelihood
or revenue Of their builders have APP
parently, disappeared. We say ap-
parently, for a shop or house, like
vessel, unless destroyed by fire, rarely
vanishes entirely rom human ken.
So it is with some buildings in Cedar
vilIe Once they we're prominent objects
| among us; every one knew where they
were, and now everybody knows they
are gone, but few know where they
are, or if they do exist in any shape,
what service they are rendering.
We fell to thinking about those we
had known and some we had heard OF,
and racking our memory and inquiring
of people older We thought we would
tell the readers of the PIONEER where
some of them are, and what part they
are playing toward satisfying the needs
of the human race.
In the corner OF what is now the
front yard of John E. Diament, once
stood a small shop that was used as a
store by Henry Powell. Serving its
| day in that capacity it was moved to a
lot just north Of the "Old Blacksmith
shop" then occupied by Winfield
Claypoole, and was successfully used
for school purposes, for tailor shop
and by barber. Afterward purchased
by Miss Mary Rocap it was turned
around and altered into a dwelling
house, in which Miss Recap has re-
sided ever since.
The blacksmith shop just alluded to,
! on the sale of the site in 1874 to G. ID.
Bateman, part of the material went
into the building erected by Maskell
Ewing near the pond, and portion
was bought by Elmer Earl, and is do
ing duty as a barn or wagon shed on
the premises where Edward Candy
! lives.
| Just this side of the cold Red Store .
which, on the erection of the new one
| in 1855, was sold to Jesse EgberG and
by him taken to his farm on Jones
Island and worked up into out build
ings, was small one-story structure
also painted red. This was the tailor
shop of the village in the days when
tailors were useful, and Joel Westcott
was the tailor.
After it became tired of that location
it was moved on the street leading to
South Cedarville station, about where
Daniel Stanton's house now is, and
while there several persons, mostly
ladies, taught school therein.
Not being satisfied with this flight,
it journeyed still farther in the same di-
rection and was converted into a
dwelling house, now owned and occu-
pied by Peter Sharp.
A shop which once was on the farm
of Charles R. Sheppard, having fulfilled
it's mission there, was moved by Joab
Sheppard across the main road and
helped to make up a house where
Mahlon Orr goes at night and calls
his home.
Theodore Diament's broom shop,
which once stood on Edgeroad avenue
on Ethan Duffield's property, was
bought by Joab Sheppard, and by him
taken to lot on Railroad street, (once
known as Cripple street, and now it
would puzzle a man to find it, so COM
pletely has it been absorbed in the
dwelling place of l. f. Evan.
Samuel Conover's carpenter shop,
or one of them, that stood just the
other side of Henry Jess, was for a
| long time used for wood-house by
Captain Benjamin f. Roray, but was
torn down when the Captain made up
his mind to have larger house. We
believe some of the material was used
in some part of the work.
Another of the carpenter shops of
Samuel Conover, the one just in the
rear of his house, was destroyed by
fire.
Another on the same lot, but farther
back, was purchased by Eli Earl and
removed to Centre Grove, and now
holds one of our German friends, Fred
rick Dresch and his family.
Another building also. we think,
used by Mr.. Conover in his business,
and by Captain VIM. B. Mayhem in
the days when he followed wheel